During the past 50 years, the turbidite paradigm has promoted many myths related to deep-water turbidite deposition. John E. Sanders (1926–1999), a pioneering process sedimentologist, first uncovered many of these turbidite myths. This paper provides a reality check by undoing 10 of these turbidite myths. Myth No. 1: turbidity currents are non-turbulent flows with multiple sediment-support mech...

Services provided to rape victims by human service professionals are usually helpful but are occasionally very harmful in that the victim ends up feeling 're-victimized'. This may be caused by the attitudes of the professionals towards the victims based on beliefs regarding rape and gender roles. Japanese human service professionals were solicited for responses to the Rape Myth Scale (RMS) and ...

Film has the power to construct a person through symbols it sends in each scene. In addition construction of meaning, film also fold and manipulate reality into nothing more than narrow screen. This is known as hyperreality. Aquaman DC fantasy that tells story perfection hyperreal world Atlantis. study aims analyze hyperreality order build awareness visualization Atlantis commodity by capitalis...

Creation myth: In the ritual rooms of the Pueblo cultures in North America, a hole in the ground symbolically represents the passage of the tribes into this world. (Photo: Wikipedia.) The ritual rooms of the Pueblo culture in North America, known as kiva, typically contain a hole in the ground, the sípapu. It symbolically represents the origin of the tribe, the passage through which its people ...

A major obstacle to coming to terms with the full reality of bodily life is the widespread myth that the body can be controlled. [...] The essence of the myth of control is the belief that it is possible, by means of human actions, to have the bodies we want and to prevent illness, disability, and death. Like many myths, the myth of control contains a significant element of truth; we do have so...

Abstract This article explores the Shāh-nāma’s recounting of tragic myth Prince Siyāvash and analyzes implications Siyāvash’s supranational ethical sense in an epic often closely associated with proto-nationalism a concrete Iranian identity. It proposes that Ferdowsi’s depiction evolving identity—one contains elements what we would associate today supranationalism (or cosmopolitanism) hybridity...

In today’s era of globalization and marginalization we are sometimes struck by the seeming paradox of examples of exceptional development in still marginalized regions, or “counter-geographies”. One such example is the purported clustering of centenarians (those who have surpassed 100 years) in the Caucasus region of the former Soviet States. This paper explores purported centenarian clustering...

This paper is concerned with why and how multinational companies (MNCs) voluntarily engage in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially in social standards. The first part describes the prevailing perspectives on the CSR debate. Then, with the New Institutionalism in Sociology, an alternative view on CSR is discussed. The third part develops the argument that the ‘traditional’ rational ...